[PGR88]

Mary, though a dead woman and incapable of hearing prayer, is an intercessor for Catholics. Sadly, that is how their system works.

Do people not have souls? If I am able to pray for you, or you for me, or me for the soul of my dead brother - then can not the soul of the unstained Mother of Christ also be influenced by our prayers?

[Boanarges]

No.

And if by “unstained” you mean sinless, you are in grave error. Mary needed a saviour just as much as you and me.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ then can not the soul of the unstained Mother of Christ also be influenced by our prayers?” <<

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Find it in the scriptures.

Start with Jeremiah 7

[Cvengr]

I’ve always found the passage of Saul and Samuel (1st Sam 28:7-19) to be quite revealing regarding the communication of the living with those who are dead.

I suspect she is very dead, and very much aware every time somebody evokes her name. FWIW, I suspect part of her suffering is due to her being emulated as the “Queen of Heaven” instead of a more mildly recognized person in His direct family.